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T HE U NIVERSITY
Four presidents served from 1991 to 2001: Dr. Harold W. Lundy, Dr. Raymond Hicks, Dr. Leonard
Haynes III and Dr. Steve A. Favors.
Grambling State University’s first female president, Dr. Neari Francois Warner, served a three-year
interim term until the selection of Dr. Horace Judson, who became the institution’s seventh president
in 2004. After leading an ambitious five-year campaign to rebuild the institution's facilities, Judson
resigned in 2009. After Judson's departure, Frank G. Pogue, Ph.D., a highly respected educator and
administrator with a distinguished 47-year career in higher education assumed the role of interim
president and was later named the university's eighth president. Prior to his selection as president,
Dr. Pogue served as the president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, interim president at
Chicago State University and State University of New York (SUNY)-Cobleskill. Dr. Pogue retired after
serving a five-year term as president.
Dr. Cynthia Warrick, Ph.D., R.Ph. was named as interim president in 2014 during the presidential
search. Warrick ventured into higher education 16 years ago serving in multi-faceted leadership
roles as an administrator, public servant, healthcare professional, environmental research scientist,
faculty member, and accreditation reviewer.
Dr. Willie D. Larkin, Ph.D. was named ninth university president in 2015 (May) and served a one-year
term. Dr. Larkin had previously served as Chief of Staff to leaders of Morgan State University and the
University of Wisconsin Colleges, where he worked directly with the chancellor, and the president at
Morgan State University, to provide oversight of nearly 3,000 employees and an operating budget of
more than $300 million. At Auburn University, he was the faculty advisor to the university’s Board of
Trustees and the first African American to chair the university’s 90-member University Senate.
Our current president is Richard J. Gallot, Jr.
Academic Viewbook
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